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Last month, Matt Belloni of Puck News reported: “Holiness’ behavior during the filming of Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope,’ in which Kaluuya stars, caused people on set to be concerned about her influence over the British actor.”
An insider reported that actor Daniel Kaluuya’s reported personal manager, Heir Holiness, had “taken over his life” after on-set interactions with her.
“People on the ‘Nope’ set were very concerned that Heir had ‘taken over’ DK’s life and all decisions had to go through her,” said an industry insider. “I’ve heard there were multiple blow-ups and the production people were afraid of her.”
A Hollywood source told The Post: “Was everyone a fan of Heir on set? No.”
Puck also reported that Kaluuya, 33, had fired his powerful talent agents at CAA, which reps such A-listers as Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Reese Witherspoon. He signed with the agency in 2018 shortly after filming “Get Out.”
A CAA spokesperson told The Post: “I can confirm that Daniel Kaluuya is not a client of the agency.”
“Heir Holiness has marginalized DK’s usual team,” said the industry insider.
When the source first heard of Heir, she was going by the name Heir Princess. The Post can reveal that her real name is Vanylla Salimah Mahmoud. The 50-year-old hails from California and has at least three Twitter accounts, one of which is private. There is also an Instagram account with messages like “I’m just a spiritual gangster serving a life sentence in a human body.”
The Kaluuya source revealed the actor — who thanked God during his Oscars speech — and Heir were so close during the publicity run of “Judas and the Black Messiah” that he would fly her to Los Angeles from Las Vegas every week for spiritual healing, mental exercises and a diet of herbal supplements to lose weight.
The woman, who said that her moniker was derived from a slave name, confirmed that she had run The International Alma Mater, Blessed University “before the pandemic.”
The International Alma Mater School of Ascension has called itself “an institution created to serve today’s woman in business with education in Leadership, Empowerment and Spiritual Self Sufficiency as a foundation for excellence in Life & Business.”
A website for the school no longer works.
The Post has seen a photo of them cuddling up together on a hot air balloon ride, with Kaluuya at Soho House in West Hollywood, and celebrating his Feb. 24 birthday at a bash thrown by British actor Damson Idris.
Kaluuya was last known to be dating a woman based in NYC, but that has ended, according to sources who know him. One claimed that Heir may have influenced the breakup.
What is Daniel Kaluuya's tie to 'life strategist' Heir Holiness?
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